Word: messerschmitts
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Waggling its wings, a German Messerschmitt 109 skimmed in low and fast to the huge air base of the Fifteenth Air Force Headquarters in Italy. U.S. gunners held their fire. Reason: a U.S. flag was painted crudely on the fuselage, white stars daubed on the wings. The plane landed, braked to a stop. Tall, handsome Captain Carl Cantacuzino of the Rumanian Air Force climbed out. To the crowd of airmen who ran up, he said: "I have somebody here you'll be glad...
...Then I saw an Me-109 coming in ... boring straight at me without firing a shot. I wondered: 'When will that crazy guy ever turn off?' He kept coming. Then I knew why. That Messerschmitt was piloted by a dead one. At the last second I shoved the wheel forward and prayed. . .. He couldn't have missed by much, because he took off our aerial...
...contribution to the massive and continuing assault upon Germany's air power, the Fifteenth sent more than 500 bombers to hit three Messerschmitt aircraft plants near Vienna. Three days later it launched another fleet of nearly 1,000 bombers and fighters, this time to throw a double punch at Nazi communications in Bucharest and Ploesti. This week the heavy bombers carried on with a smash at airdromes and railyards in Belgrade and Sofia, and struck at the Rumanian industrial city of Brasov, barely 100 miles from the Red Army front in Rumania. The Fifteenth was actually fighting in support...
Four in Hand. A P47 Thunderbolt pilot in Italy fired a long burst at a Messerschmitt 109 over Verona. The enemy's right wing flew off, hit another German plane. Both ships exploded. No one was more surprised than the U.S. pilot when his ship's automatic motion-picture films were run off. Reason: some of his fire had hit two other German aircraft, destroyed them...
...historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...